Illinois Compiled Statutes 410 ILCS 315 — Communicable Disease Prevention Act.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Communicable Disease Prevention Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Definitions

Definitions. For the purposes of this Act: "Immunization" means treatment of an individual with any vaccine or immunologic drug licensed, approved, or authorized for use by the United States Food and Drug Administration, including emergency use authorization agents, or meeting World Health Organization requirements, an…

Certain communicable diseases such as measles, poliomyelitis, invasive pneumococcal disease, and tetanus, may and do result in serious physical and mental disability including an intellectual disability, permanent paralysis, encephalitis, convulsions, pneumonia, and not infrequently, death. Most of these diseases attac…

State Guidelines for Communicable Disease Prevention

State Guidelines for Communicable Disease Prevention. (a) The Director of Public Health shall provide State Guidelines for Communicable Disease Prevention for which there is an immunization or medical countermeasure. The Guidelines shall address the use of immunizations and may include recommendations for the administr…

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Notwithstanding Section 2 of this Act, within 30 days of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, the Department shall promulgate rules and regulations, and shall submit those rules and regulations in accordance with the rulemaking first notice requirements…

Meningococcal conjugate vaccine

Meningococcal conjugate vaccine. The Department of Public Health shall adopt a rule requiring students, upon entering the 6th and 12th grade of any public, private, or parochial school, to receive an immunization containing meningococcal conjugate vaccine that meets the standards approved by the U.S. Public Health Serv…

Meningococcal disease brochure

Meningococcal disease brochure. The Department of Public Health shall develop an informational brochure relating to meningococcal disease that states that immunizations against meningococcal disease are available. The Department of Public Health shall make the brochure available on its website and shall notify every pu…

The Department of Public Health shall promulgate rules and regulations requiring immunization of children against preventable communicable diseases designated by the Director

The Department of Public Health shall promulgate rules and regulations requiring immunization of children against preventable communicable diseases designated by the Director. Before any regulation or amendment thereto is prescribed, the Department shall conduct a public hearing regarding such regulation. In addition,…

The Illinois Department of Public Health may pay for health insurance coverage with funds appropriated for this purpose on behalf of persons who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and are eligible for "continuation coverage" as provided by the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act…

HPV-related prevention

HPV-related prevention. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2 of this Act, the Department of Public Health must provide all students who are entering sixth grade and their parents or legal guardians written information about the link between human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical, vulvar, vaginal, penile, an…

The provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act are hereby expressly adopted and shall apply to all administrative rules and procedures of the Department of Public Health under this Act, except that Section 5-35 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act relating to procedures for rule-making does not app…